tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76499612024-09-01T07:07:46.005+01:00Taking liberties since 1978marmalade girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07806123394787291818noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7649961.post-61889733829555752012008-11-23T00:05:00.002+00:002008-11-23T00:07:48.494+00:00

I have relaunched my website with my own blog. So if you want to see what I'm writing about now you can find me at:http://www.elsabartley.co.uk/or you can subscribe to my RSS:http://feeds.feedburner.com/elsabartleyThanks.

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I recently bought my Mum as DS, after she showed more interest than I'd expected in my PSP, but the zillions of buttons and controls were confusing.Since then I've been looking for games to get her and I've been annoyed by what seems to be the lamest bunch of "girl games" ever. Cooking Mama, Baby Pals and Nintendogs - what a pile of tosh. This reminds me of those bloody barbie games they made to

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Sorry for the complete lack of posting of late. I'm working on incorporating my blog into my own website and therefore haven't kept this as up to date as I should of.Back to the mince pie fueled grind stone for now.Seasonal greetings to all.

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I love watching the talks from TED, so many interesting talks and concepts. There is something great about listening to really smart people discuss topics that interest them.Stefan's talk was about happiness and the large part design had to play in his happiness through life.Here is his list of life lessons, there are definitely a few in here that I could do with reminding myslef of every now and

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Culture matters: Why i-mode failedAlthough hindsight is a wonderful thing I think this article makes a very important point. People don't care about technology (well except for us geeks), but people do care about an experience.This can classically be demonstrated by the Wii, which is little more than a supped up Game Cube and doesn't compare to the XBox 360 or the PS3. But in terms of experience

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Another Girl Geek Dinner tonight and I was delighted that Fiz and Alex could come. There was a really good presentation on search engine optimisation by Internet marketing company Hallam.Susan Hallam gave a really good presentation covering some of the major players in SEO. It was a great refresher as it must be about 5 years since I really focused on SEO, and have relied primarily on good mark

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http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=326&blogid=2A great argument about what is wrong with the London Olympic logo - it's too trendy. It is meant to be aimed at the younger audience, but by trying to make it hip they have ultimately created something that will be out of date by 2012.No one can really guess what the most fickle fashion conscious among us will like in 5

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http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11729.aspThere has just been an official response to the petition against banning gay men from giving blood and it has made me so mad, but with no where to rant I have resorted yet again to using my blog as a soap box to make me feel better.Their argument is that of the blood given that tests positive for HIV or HepB a high proportion turns out to be from

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After I missed the Girl Geek Dinner at Tech Ed in Barcelona I was interested in finding out a bit more about it and was surprised to find that there were events that were being run locally. So I decided to go to the next one and check it out.I'm not really big into networking, but I do find that there are so few women developers that as a rule we tend to stick together; sometimes despite quite

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BlipTV Molly InterviewIt's interesting to hear Molly's views on how it can be technologists versus the business with regards to standards. I think this has been true of everywhere I have worked, and it's understandable.I think the points about businesses understanding the ROI from standards is also valid, they are waking up to this, however the biggest set back seems to be legacy issues and

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Polar RoseThis is pretty cool, if it works well. the potential to be able to recognise a face across multiple photos has previously been one of the tasks that still require a human. however this software potentially changes that. This is great news in terms of image searching.It also reminds me about some interesting articles I've read recently around people who are unable to recognise faces, and

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Thanks to the crazy people at work who won't let me check my gmail on my work PC, I have been without gmail for several months now and it's been difficult. I have tried using my mobile's browser, but it has been sluggish and expensive.Now thanks to gmail's new java app for my phone it's just expensive. It's a really nice little app and it really streamlines the whole process and makes reading my

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I've been ignoring this blog a bit as I've been wanting to setone up just for the WPF stuff, which is pretty much all I've been doing for the last couple of months. But it's taking a while to get set up and I'm being rather slack about sorting it all out.This years Xmas was filled with Invader Zim goodness and between that and Gorillaz I've been in visual overload.

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Reflections are the latest trend on the web it seems. I've seen them everywhere from Microsoft's keynote speech and now it is saturating the CSS gallaries. This super shiney style black is all the rage, which ties in nicely with the new OS releases from Apple and Microsoft and a slick new shiny black theme for XP gets leaked. I wouldn't be surprised if we see some "glass" effects on the web soon

marmalade girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07806123394787291818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7649961.post-1163554387207795612006-11-15T01:29:00.000+00:002006-11-15T01:33:07.223+00:00

Because I like using funky icons on my desktop I like to change my settings to large icons. However dong that has changed all my links to webpages to the IE icon since installing IE7. There was a bug in the beta on all icon sizes, but it seems it remains for large icons. No matter what I set the icon to or the fact that Firefox is the default browser the icon that displays is still the butt ugly

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I have at last recovered from Tech.Ed 2006, and feel I can at least make a start at posting some of the cool stuff I saw. I was concentrating on the WPF stuff and a big thanks to all the presenters and WPF team who answered my zillions of questions, everyone was amazingly helpful and friendly.I went to the developers section of Tech.Ed, and although I was sometimes out of my depth since I don't

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The latest challenge to fall on my plate is to get up to speed with XAML for Windows Presentation Foundation, which is pretty cool stuff.I'm pretty excited about the potential for 3D and the fact that the UI is vector based, so it is much more versatile and scalable. I'm using the Expression Interface Designer as my IDE and so far it has been a very mixed experience. I love that you can scale the

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What a bunch of useless tossers.Once the service is up and running it isn't too bad from a service p.o.v. But their customer service sucks. No one has any power to do anything except apologise. Raising a complaint gets you nowhere and you waste your life on the phone.I've been forced to raise the issue with CISAS, but to no real avail. Now they have been bought out by Pipex there is littel

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At last got Vista RC1 up and running which is pretty cool. I just want to have a poke around at this stage and set up somewhere for trying out some XAML.

marmalade girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07806123394787291818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7649961.post-1158868301734390882006-09-21T20:47:00.000+01:002006-09-21T20:51:41.746+01:00

Seems to me that the W3C are really missing something by not offering some semantic markup for date and time. Dates and time are common enough on the web, especially in blogs and before that as "last updated" stamps so am I missing something obvious?

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The 10th Anniversary of Flash - Most Influential Flash Site Of The DecadeA look at those key websites that have set trends rather than followed them. You get to vote which is the most influencial.

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Vinyl Pulse: LIV3r's Summer Munny GalleryWell I was very honoured to see the LIV3R had picked out my Munny to go in his Summer Gallery on Vinyl Pulse. Given the calibre of some of the Munny's I've seen on the Munny Forum I'm really chuffed. It's my first Munny and although I have a few more hanging around to get done I first need to relent on the steep learning curve that is Flex 2.Well that was

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Cordless Mice > Logitech® MX™610 Left-Hand Laser Cordless MouseAfter years and years of waiting for a decent and affordable left-handed mouse to replace my rather knackered and not so ergonomic MS Optical mouse I found Logitech have at last released a proper left handed mouse.Thanks Logitech.

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FlexDeveloper.euNow we have our own resource to document our learning curve of Flex, and who knows it might help a few other people too.

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Adobe returns attention to Flash for Linux Good news for Flex. Flash 9 on Linux development is steaming ahead.

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